suggestibility
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8.2
- noun
- /səˌdʒɛstɪˈbɪlɪti/
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sugestibilidad
- Children often show a high level of suggestibility, making them more open to accepting the ideas presented by adults.
- children's suggestibility
- hypnotic suggestibility
You have somebody your age, you still have like a lower level of suggestibility.
- You have somebody your age, you still have like a lower level of suggestibility.
Examples
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The therapist explained that suggestibility can play a significant role in how clients respond to suggestions during sessions.
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When Ito then categorized his subjects as high, medium, or low on hypnotic suggestibility, it was observed that highly suggestible subjects who were both hypnotized and who received motivating instructions had the highest strength scores.
Academic text (1991) -
Beth said, "Sometimes the suggestibility effect brings things to consciousness that you might not want to think about."
Fiction book (1998) -
While suggestibility is an important issue in the clinical setting, it is something over which therapists have some control.
Academic text (2002) -
What they prize is docility, suggestibility: the child who will do what he is told; or even better, the child who will do what is wanted without even having to be told.
Blog text (2) -
We do use focal points sometimes to guide someone into a state of heightened suggestibility.
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Suggestibility played no part in this experiment since the subjects were specifically instructed to recall how they originally felt about the movie, not any change in their opinion brought about by reading the review.
Academic text (2011) -
Further research by Morgan, Needle, and Coyne (1966) demonstrated a positive relationship between suggestibility and maximum strength performance.
Academic text (1990) -
He also states that his participants are carefully selected based on their suggestibility and responsiveness, which is common in stage hypnosis.
Blog text (16) -
While the influence on false memory creation of some of these variables has been previously studied, many of the previous studies have been conducted within an eyewitness testimony/suggestibility framework.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
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6.2
Willingness to accept new ideas or suggestions
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4.6
A willingness to accept new ideas or feedback
How easily a person accepts other people's ideas
Being easily convinced by other people
A tendency to be easily influenced by other people or things that happen
Willingness to follow instructions and accept guidance
A willingness to accept new ideas and feedback
Antonyms
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3.0
Freedom from control by others, for example when a country is free or a person supports themselves
How Suggestible
Surface Forms
Morphology
suggestibility = suggestible (transparent) = suggest + ible + ity
The noun is clearly formed from the adjective 'suggestible' by the productive noun-forming suffix '-ity', preserving the meaning 'the quality of being suggestible'.
Etymology
Suggestibility comes from the verb suggest (as in suggestion), which means 'to put an idea into someone's mind', and the ending -ibility, which means 'ability'. So, suggestibility is the 'ability to be given ideas' and means being easily influenced by other people's suggestions.